COME ON CHELSEA!

I have a lot of respect for Benfica's squad. A lot of potential in a lot of players. Wish they didn't get a red card, would've been a competition. It was a good game.


2-1 in the bridge.... 3-0 in Nou.

Sorry Chelsea but that's how it will end for you

Cech could have kept a clean sheet if he didn't wait for the ball

Love to see Chelsea go all the way!

Hihihi.... Anybody watching these highlights would think that Chelsea dominated the game...

Benefica had a decent game, the red card really hurt them but nonetheless Chelsea are in a good run of form hopefully they can have their revenge against Barca. We'll see what happens...

Against barca, we should play to our strength, which is set piece more specifically corners. We all know that barca are short of tall players and the few I can think of is pique and puyol. And we have been scoring goals from corner quite a lot lately since RDM took charge. 1 against leicester and 2 against aston villa if I recalled correctly. That is what we can exploit. Which means that drogba should be played and used as a target man. A long ball forward and let drogba control the ball down, and bring others into play. Malouda should be played so that he can track dani alves back.

In defence, we should use physically sound players like essien, ramires to disrupt their attacking flow. I don't mind if we get a few cards as long as they are not red. Use no-nonsense defenders like terry and cahill cause we can't have some foolish play from david luiz and crappy defending from bosingwa to ruin our game. Ivanovic must be used as a right back since he can be a threat in corners. Last but not least, we should limit our closing down to avoid being out of shape. We have seen that the closing down barca players is like playing suicidal game because of their ability to play in tight situations. If you want to close down players, make sure they don't go past you by any means, which include getting a foul to disrupt the play. That was how mourinho instructed his players against barca

Wow befica put up a good fight. They are defintely champion league material. And sexy goal by meireles

Let's be honest guys, everyone wants to see a Barca vs Real Madrid final, so don't spoil it for us.... Sorry ;P

Ten men Benfica was 5 times better than shitty Chelsea

I admit that we should have played better in when benfica were down to 10 men, but lets not forget the fact that we had 10 same players playing on the field against villa playing with benfica. In the second half chelsea obviously slowed the play down a lot to conserve energy. What I am trying to say is that we can't use the standard against benfica to judge our performance against barcelona 2 weeks later. What is the point of wasting much energy when we have to play almost every 3 days in the next month of so?

However, we should really give credit to benfica because you wouldnt realise that they were down to 10 men in the second half. Very impressive performance from a side down to 10 men in almost half of the game. But the manager was a bit over. A lose is a lose and you should accept it. Jorge Jesus, stop acting like be I T see H

Benfica is (x2)better than Chelsea in this game

Man I gotta' admit meireles is a good shooter from outside-the-box range

The red card killed the game up but it came back to life in last 10mins of game wooop - Meireles with a cracker.

Its time for Chelsea to get revenge hope it will be a fair game this time.

I've heard Overbo is going to take charge of that game again lol just kidding

I am hoping to see a Chelsea - Real Madrid final.... Would love it if Chelsea win the champions league....

I think they really deserve something for having a turned around a really crap season.... Good going guys!